Chapter 17: The Wind Blows
The heart of the Tang Dynasty is in Jingzhao Mansion, the center of Jingzhao Mansion is Chang'an City, the center of Chang'an City is the imperial city standing in the north, and the Taiji Palace in the imperial city is the center of the world. The imperial palace is in the central area of the north of Chang'an City, occupying an area relative to the twelve squares, and the scale is huge. After Tang Xuanzong successfully ascended the throne, Taiji Palace was only used for the Great Dynasty Meeting, and the general early dynasty was in the Hanyuan Hall of Daming Palace.
Daming Palace stands outside the northeast corner of Chang'an City, adjacent to the Imperial City. Hanyuan Hall is in the center of Daming Palace, although it is not as majestic as Taiji Palace, it is better than spectacular and majestic. Daming Palace was originally built on the mountain, and Hanyuan Hall was even more on the mountainside. Sitting in the Hanyuan Palace, overlooking Chang'an City, it is magnificent. There are three dragon tail roads that meander upwards outside the Hanyuan Palace, the road is more than 20 zhang long, there are white jade handrails on both sides of the road, the upper railing is engraved with the head pattern, the middle and lower railings are engraved with the lotus pattern, and the symbols of these two waters are used to dispel fire.
There are Xiangluan, Qifeng two pavilions in front of Hanyuan Palace, and there are bell towers, drum towers in front of the pavilions. Whenever the court meeting, the hundred officials of the upper dynasty stood under the bell and drum tower and waited to enter the court hall under the supervision and examination of the imperial history. While the court meeting was in progress, the supervising imperial historian and the counselor stood on both sides of the railing on the upper level of Longwei Road.
Daming Palace and its foundation Longshou Mountain seem to constitute a dragon map, Longshou Mountain is the head, containing the tail belly of the town of the Yuan Palace, driving the dragon, the dragon tail road in front of the palace, the ladder Linlin, resembling the dragon's tail.
The Xuanzheng Hall behind the Hanyuan Hall is the place where the emperor meets the ministers and listens to the government every day.
Today is destined to be an unusual early dynasty. Before dawn, Li Longji's desk was full of impeachment recitals.
"Chen Jiayou, the commander of the Zuo Yulin Army, openly resisted the order and committed the crime of bullying the king."
"Chen Jiachong, the chief assistant of Shangshu Province, is not strict in discipline, and his son Chen Shuxiong is extremely guilty of robbing people's girls in Xishi."
"Chen Jiachong privately appointed officials, and formed a party to plot misdeeds."
"Yesterday, someone openly shouted in the West Market: My father is the prime minister. It was found that Chen Shuxiong, the third son of Chen Jiachong, had an extremely bad influence in the community, and it was recommended that he be severely punished. ”
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A carriage along the road between Changle Fang and Yishan Fang in the city, slowly drove to the Daming Palace Wangxian Gate. Inside the carriage is Zhang Shuo, who is now in charge of Zhongshu Province and has been fighting with Yao Chong, the chief assistant of Menxia Province, for many years. Now that Yao Chong is driving the crane immortal, Zhang said that it is difficult to be proud, thinking back to this old opponent in the court and politics, he is very embarrassed.
After Li Longji staged a coup d'état, he changed the Yuan to Kaiyuan and secretly summoned Yao Chong to come. After Yao Chong arrived, he and Li Longji discussed the world's major events and talked freely. Li Longji intended to appoint him as prime minister, and Yao Chong put forward ten suggestions.
After Yao worshipped the prime minister, he advocated the government, reformed the old and brought the new, vigorously promoted social reform, and promoted the good and eliminated the bad. Yao Chong started by rectifying the system, dismissed redundant duties, selected officials, and suppressed the power of imperial relatives, state relatives and meritorious heroes, paid attention to the development of production, and laid a political and economic foundation for the prosperous era of the Kaiyuan Dynasty.
The king is a bright king, and the minister is a virtuous minister.
After Yao Chong's death, the history of the emperor who had been in charge of the province for eight years since the establishment of the Kaiyuan Dynasty and could be called a model of monarchs and ministers disappeared on the stage of history with the assumption of office by Yuan Qianyao, leaving only the once famous Kaiyuan "Ten Strategies".
"Implement benevolent governance and abolish harsh laws."
"Rest the army and truce, do not seek side merit".
"The law is approachable, and the law is enforced fairly".
"Eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in politics".
"Refusal of contributions other than rent".
"Relatives of the emperor are not allowed to serve as officials of Taiwan Province."
"Courtesy to courtiers".
"Be humble and admonishable".
"No more Taoist temples and Buddhist temples will be built."
"Take the dictatorship of the two Han Dynasty relatives as a warning".
"Yao Chong, you are better than me when you die. The emperor gave you the nickname of the literature, and clearly regarded you as comparable to the Wang Dao of the Western Jin Dynasty. Zhang sighed and closed his eyes to recuperate. How can what happened yesterday be concealed from this Zuo Xiang, who is in charge of Zhongshu Province, a small matter has caused such a major impact, how to deal with it depends on the decision of the saint. Zhang said that he looked down on Chen Jiachong from the bottom of his heart, and if he regarded Yao Chong as an opponent, Chen Jiachong would not even be qualified to lift Yao Chong's shoes. For such a person, it is really boring. It was yesterday's Zuo Jinwuwei Captain Guo Li, who entered Zhang Shuo's field of vision.
Today's morning dynasty is undoubtedly very lively, the cause is a small incident in the west market of the city, a school captain and Chen Chengxiang's family servants had a dispute, this small incident actually alarmed the general of the left leading army, it is said that later the queen came down to the decree, the general resisted the decree and actually detained the decree, and tied up the little eunuch who passed the decree. In the end, Princess Wan'an came forward, and the matter was settled.
Is it really over?
The officials and supervisors above the court smelled the clues and went to the table for impeachment. The Chen brothers, who were once incomparable, are now like water dogs in the eyes of everyone, and everyone is eager to beat them.
In front of Wangxian Gate, there are all kinds of horse and train stations, and all kinds of servants are parked, and the Tang Dynasty has ruled the world for a hundred years, and the territory has been expanded. Now at the feet of the Son of Heaven, such a farce has happened. Some people also said that it was because Chen Jiasong and Chen Xiang's three sons openly robbed people's daughters in Xishi.
In the early dynasties, the passengers were all important ministers of the court. There were a large number of people who participated in the early dynasty, and gradually formed a set of rules that can be found, and the distance from Wangxian Gate was divided according to the rank and rank of the lord, and the carriage of the high one stayed nearby, and the lowly one gradually moved away in turn.
A magnificent lineup of hundreds of people silently stood according to the rank. Before the Wangxian Gate opened, people's eyes were always focused on the few people at the front of the line.
Zhang said that the Zhongshu Province led by Menxia Province was headed by Yuan Qianyao, and behind Chen Jiasong were six Shangshu and various ministries.
Now the military generals of the DPRK and China are headed by General Wang Hui, and behind him is Li Kailuo, the general of Zuojin Wuwei, who is responsible for the defense of Chang'an City. As for Chen Jiayou, the general of the left leading army, he honestly stood behind Guo Qianjun, the general of the right leading army. On weekdays, Chen Jiayou unceremoniously lined up in front of Guo Qianqian. Although the left leader and the right leader have the same rank and official position, the difference lies in the literal distinction between the left and the right. Chen Jiayou disobeyed the queen's decree yesterday, and today he is worried. At this time when his fate is uncertain, he has already let go of his usual arrogance. Guo Qianqian didn't say a word about this, and he had already the eighteenth generation of the ancestors of the left leading army who relied on his brother to ascend to the throne.
Taichangqing Ma Huaisu, the right scattered cavalry chief servant Chu Wuliang, Hanlin Yuan Zhang Jiuling gathered at the north gate of Yishanfang. At this time, the soldiers of Zuo Jinwuwei were still on duty, and the door of the workshop had been opened. The three of them are the clear streams in the court and do not belong to any of the forces.
Hanlin Yuan, Guozijian, hereditary princes, officials of the six ministries of three provinces... Everyone standing in the queue looked at Wangxian Gate from afar. The city gate was closed, and the huge round copper beads on the city gate exuded an invisible royal majesty. In silence, waiting silently for the moment when the city gate was opened, most of the officials felt a breath of mountain rain coming and wind all over the city.